Vikrant D. Shetty & Associates

Vikrant D. Shetty & Associates is a boutique disputes and commercial law practice based in Fort, Mumbai — the heart of the city’s legal and financial district. The firm is led by Advocate Vikrant Shetty, enrolled at the Bar in 2015, a member of the International Bar Association and former professor at Government Law College, Mumbai, supported by a team of four associates.

The firm’s core practice spans arbitration and commercial litigation, shipping and maritime law (including ship arrests), real estate, insolvency and bankruptcy, and general commercial contracts. It appears regularly before the Bombay High Court, the National Company Law Tribunal, arbitration tribunals, the City Civil Court, and the Small Causes and Magistrates’ Courts in Mumbai.

Clients include businesses in the hotel and leisure, chemicals and commodities, energy, financial services, engineering and franchising sectors. The firm regularly acts in construction and property disputes, shareholder and oppression-and-mismanagement actions, corporate insolvency, IP and employment disputes, money recovery and cheque dishonour matters, and white-collar and securitisation-related proceedings. Its transactional practice covers drafting shareholder, joint venture, franchise, supply and distribution, software licensing and employment agreements, as well as documentation for immovable property transactions.

The firm advises international and NRI clients on India-related disputes and transactions, and offers consultations in person and by video, in English and Hindi.